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The article is excellent, but it fails to deal effectively with the mindset of the Left.
Even if one could prove as conclusively as the law of gravity that national health insurance will fail, they Left would still clamor for socialized medicine.
They are oblivious to argument. They want it because they want it. Belief in socialized medicine is a “moral” issue for them. They have demanded it for so long that they cannot abandon it now without a serious mental disturbance.
The only way to deal with the Left on this issue is to defeat them every time they propose any sort of program that might morph into socialized medicine.
When you think of national health insurance, remember the old Arab proverb: once a camel gets his nose in the tent, the rest of his body will soon follow.
For this reason alone, it is essential to prevent the expansion of the CHIPS programs to the degree the Democrats have proposed. GWB is correct when he notes that a ten fold expansion of CHIPS is but the first step toward socialized medicine. Of course, its politically difficult, especially in this climate - to oppose health care for kids, but opposition is essential. If this country ever enacts national health insurance, the fundamental relationship between the federal government and the citizenry will be altered fundamentally. If people want to preserve the federal structure of the United States, defeat of national health insurance - under any guise and for any reason - is a necessity.

[theBuckwheat]

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The article is excellent, but it fails to deal effectively with the mindset of the Left.
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There is no “dealing” with the mindset of the Left. This is a matter of power and votes. The battle is for the voter in the middle, the few percent who could be swayed either way.